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Supercomputer Digests Twitter in Real-Time
Specialized hardware and software could provide new insights into the social Web.
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Bendable Memory Made from Nanowire Transistors
A new type of device could ultimately hold more data than flash memory.
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Cell Phones Make a Touch Surface Smarter
A new system identifies users by their mobile phones.
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Mapping the Brain on a Massive Scale
Scanning 1,200 brains could help researchers chart the organ's fine structure and better understand neurological disorders.
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What Twitter Learns from All Those Tweets
The company's head of analytics explains how Twitter mines the data users produce.
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Sensors Use Building's Electrical Wiring as Antenna
The trick lets sensors last five times as long between charges.
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How to Remake Life
Venter Institute researchers have made the first viable cell with a synthetic genome.
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Nano Switches that Store More Data Head to Market
An electronic component that offers a new way to squeeze more data into computers and portable gadgets is set to go into production in just a couple of years.
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A Search Service that Can Peer Into the Future
Yahoo!'s Barcelona research lab has developed Time Explorer, a prototype news search engine that generates timelines that stretch into the future as well as the...
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Connecting Electronic Medical Records
Looking out his office window in Seattle, Thomas Payne can see two hospitals that use the same electronic record system as his own. And yet, says Payne, medical...
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Brighter Color For Reflective E-Reading Displays
Hewlett-Packard researchers are developing a composite material that use ambient light to create more vibrant colors for video-capable, low-power screens.
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A Step Closer to Perfect 3D Data Storage
In the introduction to a paper in press in the Journal of Biotechnology, Virgile Adam of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven in Belgium, along with a long list...
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Flexible Touch Screen Made With Printed Graphene
Researchers at Samsung and Sungkyunkwan University have developed a graphene-based flexible touch screen that eventually could lead to transparent electronics.
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Flickr Photos Yield Tourist Trails
Yahoo! researchers have developed a tool that draws on the database of millions of Flickr photos to generate detailed itineraries of what tourist sites to visit...
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Surveillance Software Knows What a Camera Sees
UCLA researchers have developed Image to Text (I2T), a computer vision system that can generate a real-time text description of what is happening in a surveillance...
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An Invisible Touch For Mobile Devices
A simple gesture-sensing interface could add new meaning to mobile-phone conversations.
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Synthetic Genome Reboots Cell
In the culmination of a project spanning 15 years, scientists at the J. Craig Venter Institute have engineered the first cell controlled by a synthetic genome.
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Lining Up 'nanodot' Memory
North Carolina State University researchers have developed a method for growing magnetic nanoparticles that could lead to much more dense computer memory devices...
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Tracking H1n1 Through the Internet
Next flu season, mining Internet sites such as Facebook, Twitter, and Google news may provide a faster way to track the spread of H1N1 than reports from official...
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